From Vonda N. McIntyre to Today: A Free Virtual Panel Four award-winning authors discuss the roots and future of feminist science fiction, with a special focus on Clarion West founder Vonda N. McIntyre and other major influences on the genre. About the Event Vonda N. McIntyre contributed extensively during her lifetime to the ongoing explosion...
Supported by the Leslie Howle Instructorship Usman T. Malik (CW ‘13) is the award-winning author of Midnight Doorways: Fables from Pakistan and has published stories in Al-Jazeera, WIRED, Center for Science and Imagination’s Us In Flux, New Voices of Fantasy and more than a dozen best of the year anthologies including The Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy...
Brenda Peynado is the award-winning author of The Rock Eaters. Her stories have won an O. Henry Prize, a Pushcart Prize, the Chicago Tribune’s Nelson Algren Award, and inclusion in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy. Her novella, Time’s Agent, is forthcoming from Tor.com in 2024. The Clarion West Summer Reading Series will be held in person...
This is a virtual event series featuring Black speculative fiction authors. Every Wednesday during the Write-a-thon, Sistah Scifi's Wine Down Wednesdays will be partnering with Clarion West to focus on Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler's impact on writers, and positive futures.
Cadwell Turnbull (CW ‘16) is the award-winning author of The Lesson, No Gods, No Monsters, and We are the Crisis. His short fiction has appeared in The Verge, Lightspeed, Nightmare, Asimov’s Science Fiction, and several anthologies, including The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 and The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019. The Clarion West Summer Reading Series...
Supported by the Greg Bear Memorial Instructorship Sarah Pinsker is the award-winning author of A Song For A New Day, We Are Satellites, Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea, Lost Places, and over sixty works of short fiction. She is also a singer/songwriter with four albums on various indie labels. The Clarion West Summer Reading Series will be held...
In conversation with Molly Templeton Ruoxi Chen is a Hugo Award-winning book editor based in New York City. She’s had the pleasure of working on books that have been shortlisted for the Ilube Nommo, Nebula, and NAACP Image Awards, and that have won the Alex, Locus, Crawford, Ignyte, Shirley Jackson, World Fantasy, Astounding, and Hugo Awards,...
July’s open mic will be another summer partnership between Clarion West and Two Hour Transport! Held at the Magnuson Park Amphitheater, this outdoor open mic is a community favorite. Participants will be encouraged to use Parable of the Sower for their story prompt.
Supported by the Susan C. Petrey Memorial Fellowship Carmen Maria Machado is the author of the bestselling memoir In the Dream House and the award-winning short story collection Her Body and Other Parties. She has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the winner of the Bard Fiction Prize, the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, and...
Original music inspired by Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz — Part of the Banned Books Season! Find the Clarion West table at the event!After inspiring nightmares—and controversy—for generations, the eerie, unforgettable tales of Alvin Schwarz's Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark will now inspire spooky original music for the Bushwick stage....
The Book of Love Book Discussion Sunday, October 27, 2024, 5-7 pm Ada’s Technical Books, 425 15th Ave E, Seattle, WA 98112 This meeting is free, but we encourage attendees to support Ada’s by purchasing the book at the store. Buy The Book This event coincides with Kelly’s appearance at Town Hall as part of Ted Chiang Presents: Love, Hope,...
Ted Chiang Presents: Love, Hope, and Other Four Letter Words with Kelly Link at Town Hall Seattle — Part of the SAL Ted Chiang Presents series. Find the Clarion West table at the event! The Book of Love showcases Kelly Link at the height of her powers, channeling potent magic and attuned to all varieties of love—from...